Django Unchained
Django Unchained (/ˈdʒæŋɡoʊ/ JANG-goh) is a 2012 American revisionist western movie[7] written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Tarantino's A Band Apart and Columbia Pictures, it stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson with Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson in supporting roles. The film, set in the Antebellum South and Old West, follows the story of an enslaved man who trains under a German bounty hunter with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his wife.
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| Directed by | Quentin Tarantino |
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| Written by | Quentin Tarantino |
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| Cinematography | Fred Raskin |
| Edited by | Robert Richardson |
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Running time | 165 minutes[4] |
| Country | United States[2] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100 million[5][6] |
| Box office | $449.8 million[note 1] |
The film is a highly stylized, revisionist tribute to spaghetti Westerns, with its title referring particularly to the 1966 Italian film Django by Sergio Corbucci. Development of Django Unchained began in 2007, when Tarantino was writing a book on Corbucci. By April 2011, Tarantino sent his final draft of the script to the Weinstein Company (TWC). Casting began in the summer of 2011, with Michael K. Williams and Will Smith being considered for the role of the title character before Foxx was cast. Principal photography took place from November 2011 to March 2012 in California, Wyoming, and Louisiana, on a $100 million budget.
Django Unchained premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 11, 2012, and was theatrically released by TWC on December 25, in the United States, with Columbia Pictures (through Sony Pictures Releasing International) handling international distribution. It was a commercial success, grossing $449 million worldwide, becoming Tarantino's highest-grossing film, as well as the highest-grossing Western film of all time.
The film received acclaim from critics, who praised the performances (especially Waltz, DiCaprio, and Jackson) and Tarantino's direction and screenplay, though the film's extensive graphic violence and frequent use of racial slurs were sources of controversy. It was named one of the top ten films of the year by the American Film Institute and by the National Board of Review, and received numerous accolades, gathering five nominations at the 85th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning Best Supporting Actor (Waltz) and Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino). It also received five nominations—with two wins—at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and the 66th British Academy Film Awards.
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Clockwise from top left: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington, in Paris at the film's French premiere, January 2013.
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino in Paris at the film's French premiere, January 2013.
The soundtrack features several tracks composed by Ennio Morricone for spaghetti Western films of the 1960s and 1970s.
Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as the antagonist "Monsieur" Calvin J. Candie earned notable acclaim from critics.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Debruge, Peter. Django Unchained. Variety (December 11, 2012). Retrieved November 26, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Django Unchained. AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
- ↑ Sony to co-finance Tarantino's "Django Unchained" (May 9, 2011)Blavity. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
- ↑ 'Django Unchained (18). British Board of Film Classification (December 17, 2012). Retrieved December 17, 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 'Django Unchained (2012)Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 12, 2025.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 'Django Unchained (2012)The Numbers. Retrieved November 12, 2025.
- ↑ DeMarco, Laura (September 22, 2016). "A dozen magnificent modern Westerns, from "Unforgiven" to "The Hateful Eight" (photos)". The Plain Dealer. https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2016/09/post_143.html. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
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